Dance: Love, Work, Warm Night Air

The queue reached down the shaded walk and
across the grass, streaming out like a scarf in the wind. Children and
adults, they had come from Harlem, Park Avenue and Greenwich Village to
gather at Central Park's Delacorte Theater for the final scheduled
performance in a ten-night summer dance festival. When the box office
opened to pass out the 2,263 free tickets that filled every seat, the
end of the long line was awash with customary disappointment. As had
happened on every other night of the festival, there was one who was...